With TV hits like Reacher, Jack Ryan, and The Terminal List, Prime Video has become the preeminent streaming destination for “dad TV,” and that reputation extends to its original feature-film line-up, whose recent action-oriented blockbusters G20 and Heads of State were tailor-made for the male moviegoing demographic.
The platform’s latest film, The Wrecking Crew (streaming Jan. 28), is a kindred spirit to those predecessors, pairing renowned macho men Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista in an over-the-top affair that adheres to every ‘80s and ‘90s cliché imaginable. Never quite as funny as it wants to be, but making up for that in the violence department, it’s a healthy serving of slam-bang cinematic comfort food.
Momoa and Bautista don’t look like each other, but their larger-than-life burliness—even with the latter’s relatively svelte new physique—makes them a well-matched duo. They bicker and brawl with enthusiasm in The Wrecking Crew, whose story revolves around Walter, a private eye whose hit-and-run death during the film’s maiden scene is iffy on its own, and intensely suspicious given that it occurs immediately after he mailed a package while behaving as if he were being pursued.
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